From the Forum: Strange case of the dog that goes wee-wee in the night
There’s so much going on in strata at the moment that we barely need our usual weekly roundup of Forum questions and answers. But then there’s so much going on…
Reply To: Who Pays for Alternative Accommodation?
Strata insurance generally doesn’t cover expenses caused by building work that is due to repairs and maintenance and not the result of an “event” or accident. However, regardless of whether…
Reply To: Who Pays for Alternative Accommodation?
This happen to us last year, the entire top floor lost all tenants due to major remedial works. None of the insurance policies covered alternative accommodation due the ” necessary…
Reply To: Who Pays for Alternative Accommodation?
Would your own home contents insurance etc cover help here?
Time we had a Tripadvisor for unit block builders?
With defects on the minds of everyone in the apartment world, there’s a whole lot of finger pointing going on. Developers are saying engineers should be certified, strata owners say…
Reply To: Should we be getting two insurance quotes from our strata manager?
Thanks for that advice. It’s yet another example of a lack of transparency that SSM Act allows Committees and Strata Managers to get away with. If the Minutes of a…
Reply To: Should we be getting two insurance quotes from our strata manager?
More relevant than section 102 is 166 Strata managing agent to obtain insurance quotations A strata managing agent must provide the owners corporation with not less than 3 quotations from different providers for each type of…
Reply To: Committee member holding out against security improvements
Pretty sure your own home contents cover if you have it covers your own stuff, and the Body Corp insurance covers the community owned stuff, so if they broke into…
Committee member holding out against security improvements
Hi Jimmy, Question re Insurance liability and where that sits. We are members of the Exec of our Building in Sydney (15 Apartments) We have had several thefts and an…
Reply To: Residential Property Review Website – Seeking feedback
I hope your legal insurance against defamation cases is up to par.
Forensic research – your best hope for not buying a high-rise lemon
With state planning ministers meeting this month, informed in part by a behind-closed-doors meeting of development “stakeholders” in NSW last week, you can be sure that building defects in their…
From the Forum: How do you deal with a dope who can’t cope?
There’s an interesting statistic that I never tire of quoting: no strata manager in NSW has ever been struck off for being really bad at his or her job. And…